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Last week's bake

koloatree's picture
koloatree

Last week's bake

Doing some baking experiments with portugese sweet bread from "Advanced Bread and Pastry" book. This bake, I could of waited an additional hour or so but was pressed for time. The dough can triple+ in size during it's final proof. I filled these bread with ghiridelli chocolate chips and walnuts. Next bake, I will proof more and add more chocolate! The topping is some pearl sugar.

 

 

These baguettes are from "Bread"; the poolish version. I made some mistakes during the shaping. These are 12ozs and could barely fit on my baking stone. This weekend, going to try 10ozs.

 

 

Comments

Mebake's picture
Mebake

Nice go at those baguettes!

Khalid

ehanner's picture
ehanner

koloatree, I like your thinking. "Next time add more chocolate". Nice post and your baguettes look great to me. Nice ears and expansion.

Eric

wally's picture
wally

You are being hard on yourself - those look good to me.  If your baking stone is like mine - about 16" in length, then you would do well to go with 10 oz baguettes.

Larry

koloatree's picture
koloatree

Thanks all!

saltandserenity's picture
saltandserenity

Gread variation on the Portugese sweet bread!